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Do you know of Empire City ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Empire City. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Empire City.

Our sources for Empire City (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Empire City other than they indicate that Empire City would be found somewhere in Dakota County, Minnesota.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1856 and closed  in 1924.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Empire City ...

We found five communities that share the name Empire City.

Within Minnesota, the name Empire City is unique.

Beyond Minnesota, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Idaho
      • Owyhee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Empire City [Owyhee County].
    • Kansas
      • Cherokee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Empire City [Cherokee County].
      • Greenwood County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Empire City [Greenwood County].
    • Nevada
      • Ormsby County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Empire City [Ormsby County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Stephens County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Empire City [Stephens County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Empire City ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Empire City:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Empire City - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

The FIPS database contains an entry for Empire City.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 27/19394   (Place Name: Empire City)

County: Dakota     (FIPS State/County: 27/037)

Class: X3

More Orphans in  Dakota County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Dakota County.

AuburnMcKee Spur
 McKee
Black DogMendota Junction
 Milesville
Carlisle 
CascadeOrchard Lake
Christiana 
CliffRadio Center
 Regan
Eagandale 
East Castle RockSaint Paul Junction
East HastingsSouth Grove
 South Park
Fordson 
 Valley Ridge
Hiawatha Spur 
 Wallace
Inver GroveWestcott
  

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Empire City could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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